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11 December 1952 (USA)
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The story of a woman...who thought she was a star so high in the sky no man could touch her!
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A washed-up movie queen finds romance, but still desires a come-back. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for Oscar.
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Whatever happened to Margaret Elliot?Going,going gone!
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Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Bette Davis | ... | Margaret Elliot | |
| Sterling Hayden | ... | Jim Johannson aka Barry Lester | |
| Natalie Wood | ... | Gretchen | |
| Warner Anderson | ... | Harry Stone | |
| Minor Watson | ... | Joe Morrison | |
| June Travis | ... | Phyllis Stone | |
| Paul Frees | ... | Richard Stanley | |
| Robert Warrick | ... | R.J., Aging Actor at Party | |
| Barbara Lawrence | ... | Herself | |
| Fay Baker | ... | Margaret's sister | |
| Herb Vigran | ... | Roy |
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89 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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USA:Approved |
UK:A (original rating) |
USA:Passed (National Board of Review) |
Finland:K-16 |
Sweden:15 |
Australia:PG
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In the scene where a drunken Margaret Elliot takes her Oscar for a ride in her car, Bette Davis used one of her own Oscars.
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Crew or equipment visible: When Margaret goes to work in a department store, she descends an escalator and all sorts of electrical cables from the film production can be seen on the floor beneath.
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Quotes:
Peggy Morgan:
Is it money? Do you want more from John?
Margaret Elliott: More money? I never asked Johnny for money.
Peggy Morgan: He's given you $2500 over the past two years.
Margaret Elliott: Well, I gave gim $ 25.000 when I divorced him so he could marry you.
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Margaret Elliott: More money? I never asked Johnny for money.
Peggy Morgan: He's given you $2500 over the past two years.
Margaret Elliott: Well, I gave gim $ 25.000 when I divorced him so he could marry you.
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Featured in Stardust: The Bette Davis Story (2006) (TV)
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Another movie where the director does not matter much.It's the actress who makes the movie.And when the actress is none other than Bette Davis ,the pleasure is intense.
Although not as good as "Sunset Boulevard" ,which it often recalls,"the star" is a solid absorbing melodrama.Davis was one of the few actresses who had the guts to play her "days to come" ;it was even more stunning in Aldrich "Whatever happened to Baby Jane?" during the following decade.And deservedly,Davis never really grew old-fashioned ,in 1981,she had even a song dedicated to her eyes.
"The star" has two great moments.The first one happens when Davis is walking down the street and when relics of her heyday are sold by auction:going,going,gone!;the second one when she watches her test and cries over the dismal results.Davis was so gifted an actress she could "play badly" and remain fascinating: the test was her last fight to regain a youth which eluded her.As Holden told to Swanson in Wilder's opus:"Being fifty is nothing tragic when you do not pretend you are thirty".